Hired to fire...what would you do?
On the first day of your new job you find out that you were really brought in to make tough staffing changes, which is not what you were told you were being hired for. How would you deal with it?
What if you were mainly brought into an organization to clean house? And what if you didn’t know anything about this until you started the position? And what if you had moved your family across country to take this seemingly great job? How would that make you feel? A little uneasy? Maybe lied to and deceived? Would you maybe feel like the CIO and IT director that hired you were a little off?
This is what brought me to Las Vegas from the Midwest. I’m not really the firing type. I believe in people. I think it’s best to try to work with them, find out their strengths and capitalize on those and find out their weaknesses and work around them but also give them small challenges that help build up those areas of weakness...
On the first day of your new job you find out that you were really brought in to make tough staffing changes, which is not what you were told you were being hired for. How would you deal with it?
What if you were mainly brought into an organization to clean house? And what if you didn’t know anything about this until you started the position? And what if you had moved your family across country to take this seemingly great job? How would that make you feel? A little uneasy? Maybe lied to and deceived? Would you maybe feel like the CIO and IT director that hired you were a little off?
This is what brought me to Las Vegas from the Midwest. I’m not really the firing type. I believe in people. I think it’s best to try to work with them, find out their strengths and capitalize on those and find out their weaknesses and work around them but also give them small challenges that help build up those areas of weakness...
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